A shaky situation in California

The central premise of Marc Reisner's A Dangerous Place is sure to wipe the smile off the face of any California dreamer. The author, an expert on the environment who died in 2000, proposes in this, his final book, that a great number of Californians are going to be killed, injured and rendered homeless by an earthquake-triggered series of calamities. What's more, according to the experts he...